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Mary L. Wilson
Mary L. Wilson, a 20-year employee of U-M Hospital, born in Ypsilanti Sept. 3, 1937, the daughter of Virgil and Evelyn Mary (Townsend) Rockwell. On Dec. 14, 1959, she preceded in death by her parents, daughters Cheryl and Soo Lynn, sister Shirley Fields and great-granddaughter Desi.
William LeVeque
William LeVeque, former professor of mathematics from 1949-71 and department chair from 1967-70, Born in 1923 in Boulder, Colo., LeVeque earned his doctorate in mathematics from Cornell University. He was an instructor at Harvard before joining U-M as the first number theorist on the mathematics faculty.
LeVeque's research areas included transcendental numbers, uniform distribution and Diophantine approximation. His two-volume 1956 monograph "Topics in Number Theory" was highly influential in the development of number theory in the United States, as was the MAA monograph he edited called "Studies in Number Theory."
In 1960 he conceived the idea of updating L. E. Dickson's "History of the Theory of Numbers" that covered the subject from antiquity to 1910. In 1974 he accomplished part of his goal by publishing a six-volume collection "Reviews in Number Theory" containing all reviews in number theory that appeared in Mathematical Reviews (MR) from 1940-72 assembled by topic, for easy reference and for ease in seeing historical developments. The Special Libraries Association gave him an award for this effort.
When Ann Arbor was chosen in 1964 as the new site for MR, LeVeque took on the task of relocation, finding space as well as recruiting and training a staff. In June 1965 MR moved and LeVeque served as executive director for the next 15 months.
During his time at U-M, LeVeque was active in faculty governance. He mentored four graduate students, and for many years he played a leadership role in the mathematics honors program. LeVeque left U-M in 1971 for a position at Claremont University.
In 1977 he became executive director of the American Mathematical Society - a position he held until 1988 when he retired. He led the society to become a major publisher of books and journals. He also pioneered the use of computers in printing and funded the development of LaTex, a specialized typesetting program for mathematics. LeVeque encouraged the computerization of the MR database, creating the online searchable database MathSciNet.
While regarded by colleagues as an immensely imaginative and successful administrator, LeVeque never lost his love and interest in number theory. In 2001 he made a gift to U-M to establish the LeVeque Excellence in Number Theory endowment in the Department of Mathematics. His gift provides funds for travel, seminar speakers, conferences and related activities.
Naomi Lohr
Naomi (Nonie) Lohr, emeritus assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology, died Feb. 1, 2008 in Ann Arbor after suffering a heart attack. He was 93.
Kennedy was a pioneer in the field of bankruptcy law and widely considered to be the leading national expert in the field during his tenure at the Law School.
He served as the executive director of the United States Commission on Bankruptcy Law from 1970-73. In that capacity, he was the principal architect of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, the first comprehensive revision to the nation's bankruptcy laws in more than 75 years. He was reporter for the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1960-76, and draftsman of the Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure promulgated in 1972 by the U. S. Supreme Court, where he was instrumental in merging the Bankruptcy Rules with the rules that generally apply in federal civil cases. He coauthored Volumes 4, 4A and 4B of Collier on Bankruptcy (14th edition), the leading treatise on bankruptcy law, and was a coauthor of "Partnerships, Limited Liability Entities and S Corporations in Bankruptcies," published in 2000.
Kennedy was married. The couple soon left for Yale University, where Kennedy was a Sterling Fellow from 1939-40, and where he received the Doctorate of Juridical Science degree. The two remained died in 2006.
During World War II Kennedy served as associate counsel for the Office of Price Administration and then served in the Navy for three-and-a-half years. He was a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve for more than 20 years and retired with a rank of commander.
Kennedy began his legal career at the University of Iowa Law School, where he taught for 17 years. From 1961 until his retirement in 1984, he taught at the U-M Law School, where he was named Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law. While teaching at the University, he also acted as a consultant to the United States Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and to the World Bank.
After his retirement from the Law School, he practiced law for 10 years with the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin.
Many of Kennedy's students wrote about the profound impact he had on them. In the words of one, "He made a greater difference in my legal education than anyone else. To the extent I accomplished anything, he was the source of that accomplishment."
Memorials to his name may be made to the Frank and Patricia Kennedy Endowed Scholarship Fund at the U-M Law School.
Lawrence Lee Rauch
Professor Lawrence Lee Rauch, a faculty member of the University for 27 years, born in 1919 in Los Angeles. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1941 at the University of Southern California, and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics in 1949 by Princeton University. In the same year he became a faculty member in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at U-M.
He was best known for his major contributions as a pioneer in the area of radio telemetry, which involves the transmission of multiple data channels over one transmission link. He participated in the design of the world's first electronically switched time-division multiplex system, a technique now commonplace in cell-phone transmission systems. He supervised telemetry at the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb test. In addition to publishing in this area and winning several awards in recognition of his pioneering research, he co-authored (with M.H. Nichols) the text "Radio Telemetry" (1954).
Within the University, Rauch provided leadership in a number of vital positions. He was chairman (1950-52) of the Nuclear Engineering Program and chairman (1958-59) of the Management Science Program. He was a founder and first chairman (1952-63) of the Instrumentation Engineering Program, and became chairman (1971-76) of its prestigious successor, the Computer, Information and Control Engineering Program.
In 1977 Rauch retired from the University, assuming the post of chief technologist, Telecommunications Science and Engineering Division, at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He retired again from the latter in 1985 to his home in Los Angeles.
He is survived by his wife, Norma Cable Rauch, two sons, Lauren and Maury, and four grandchildren.
